Word Meanings - PILED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having a pile or point; pointed. "Magus threw a spear well piled." Chapman.
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- PILPUL
Among the Jews, penetrating investigation, disputation, and drawing of conclusions, esp. in Talmudic study. -- Pil"pul*ist , n. --Pil`pul*is"tic , a. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - PILLER
One who pills or plunders. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - PILOT VALVE
A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand. - PILLARED
Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars. "The pillared arches." Sir W. Scott. "Pillared flame." Thomson. - PILOTAGE
1. The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. The compensation made or allowed to a pilot. 3. Guidance, as by a pilot. Sir W. Scott. - PILFERY
Petty theft. Sir T. North. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - PILOSE
Clothed thickly with pile or soft down. (more info) 1. Hairy; full of, or made of, hair. The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering. Owen. - PILEIFORM
Having the form of a pileus or cap; pileate. - PILED
Having a pile or point; pointed. "Magus threw a spear well piled." Chapman. - POINTAL
The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer. - PILGRIMIZE
To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage. B. Jonson. - POINTED
1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. - SPEARMAN
One who is armed with a spear. Acts xxiii. 23. - PILOSITY
The quality or state of being pilose; hairiness. Bacon. - SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing. - EXPILATOR
One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager. Sir T. Browne. - PAPILLARY
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose. - LAPILLATION
The state of being, or the act of making, stony. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - EPILOGUIZE
See EPILOGIZE - PAPILLIFORM
Shaped like a papilla; mammilliform. - ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge. - OPPILATIVE
Obstructive. Sherwood. - THREE-PILE
An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak. - PAPILIONIDES
The typical butterflies.